Are blu-Ray players capable of turning on the TV on their own? The TV was not on when I went to eject the disc, but when turning on the Player, the TV turned on, and nobody else in the house had the remote.
Are blu-Ray players capable of turning on the TV on their own? The TV was not on when I went to eject the disc, but when turning on the Player, the TV turned on, and nobody else in the house had the remote.
Your TV can be configured to turn on or switch to the active input. So yes.
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Are blu-Ray players capable of turning on the TV on their own? The TV was not on when I went to eject the disc, but when turning on the Player, the TV turned on, and nobody else in the house had the remote.
yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control
samsung calls it anynet+ i think, and there other other brandings for it.
JEDIT: i hate the tech myself, and turn it off when possible.
Are blu-Ray players capable of turning on the TV on their own? The TV was not on when I went to eject the disc, but when turning on the Player, the TV turned on, and nobody else in the house had the remote.
yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control
samsung calls it anynet+ i think, and there other other brandings for it.
JEDIT: i hate the tech myself, and turn it off when possible.
I didn’t know it was part of the HDMI too. It was my first thought, but I knew that some TV’s had a version of this.
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I quite like the sound of Middle English.
Black Country or Brummie mate?
Black Country - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdotLN6e4rQ
Brummie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IGckWsXvJ8
Don’t ever get them mixed up mate - they’ll go on for hours about what an insult it is, how the other is shite, and how their’s is great (or grayte mayte 😉)
😃
I love the Brummie accent…heck, I love almost every accent, lol.
I think Duracell was referring to the actual language, though. The one good ol’ Chaucer spoke and wrote in.
dahmage said:
JEDIT: i hate the tech myself, and turn it off when possible.
So do I, honestly. It’s bad enough that everything wants to hook up to the Internet (even when it quite frankly shouldn’t), but I don’t need devices controlling other devices, at least not by default.
I would’ve liked to see Chaim Topol play Jesus.
PTOTST on Nickelback, Comic Sans, wet socks, mosquitos, cancer, etc.: “love it, just the best!”
PTOTST on Nickelback, Comic Sans, wet socks, mosquitos, cancer, etc.: “love it, just the best!”
Hey now, Nickelback aint ne’er done nothin’ ta you.
This weekend I ate way too much ice cream and watched way too many movies. It was a good weekend.
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
This weekend I ate way too much ice cream and watched way too many movies. It was a good weekend.
Sounds like my weekend, minus the movies but instead add me building a Deathkiss lair for eventual use in my D&D game.
How come some of Queen’s songs dont sound like rock? Just curious.
Probably because some of their songs aren’t rock.
Maybe they should be called a Miscellaneous band. 😛
Waiting for life to go by
Ewwww Nickelback.
I admit I like two, maybe three, Nickelback songs.
Still, the band mostly sucks and should’ve faded back into obscurity after the early '00s.
I have no problems if people like them. I just can’t stand them. Kroeger’s voice is just so whinny.
My clown nose fell off.
😦
The original Battlestar Galactica is coming to METV on Super Sci-Fi Saturday Nights!
I am pleased!
The original Battlestar Galactica is coming to METV on Super Sci-Fi Saturday Nights!
I am pleased!
I am now pleased as well, this is cool news.
I went to the game store I ordered a book from to complain about why it never showed up.
Apparently he trusted his supplier to send it to me, which he never did. I got a metal d20 as an apology gift.
The original Battlestar Galactica is coming to METV on Super Sci-Fi Saturday Nights!
I am pleased!
Why would you want to watch them chopped up to squeeze in more commercials?
Where were you in '77?
I’ve been sorting my comics alphabetically by title for a while, but I’m considering rearranging all the Superman books to chronological reading order.
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I’ve been sorting my comics alphabetically by title for a while, but I’m considering rearranging all the Superman books to chronological reading order.
Like, release order? That would make sense. I imagine internal chronology would be impossible to do.
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I’ve been sorting my comics alphabetically by title for a while, but I’m considering rearranging all the Superman books to chronological reading order.
Like, release order? That would make sense. I imagine internal chronology would be impossible to do.
Yeah that’s mostly what I meant, but without splitting up multi-issue story arcs within one book (basing it on the release of the first part of a given arc).
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Thinking about rewatching all of Farscape again since I own the latest blu-ray collection. Anyone watched this series? Thoughts on the final episode gamble?
News story to knock your socks off.
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/130000-year-old-mastodon-threatens-upend-human-history/
In 1993, construction workers building a new freeway in San Diego made a fantastic discovery. A backhoe operator scraped up a fossil, and scientists soon unearthed a full collection of bones, teeth, and tusks from a mastodon. It was a valuable find: hordes of fossils, impeccably preserved. The last of the mastodons—a slightly smaller cousin of the woolly mammoth—died out some 11,000 years ago.
But the dig site turned out to be even more revelatory—and now, with a paper in the journal Nature—controversial. See, this site wasn’t just catnip for the paleontologists, the diggers who study all fossils. It soon had archaeologists swooping in to study a number of stone tools scattered around the bones, evidence of human activity. After years of debate over the dating technology used on the mastodon, a group of researchers now believes that they can date it and the human tools to 130,000 years ago—more than 100,000 years earlier than the earliest humans are supposed to have made it to North America.
The researchers expect a bit of controversy from a discovery that pushes back the arrival of humans in North America by a factor of ten. Nature itself put together this video featuring a leading British critic of the paper. Still, lead author Steven Holen, co-director of the Center for American Paleolithic Research is confident that his colleagues have done their homework. “I was skeptical myself,” he says. “But it’s definitely an archaeological site.”
This discovery—and the inevitable pushback it will face—center on the power and peril of dating technology. After more than two decades, researchers were finally able to nail down the mastodon’s age with a more advanced kind of chemical dating. But the paper also reveals the limits of that technology in solving ancient archaeological puzzles. Tech can tell you how old things are, but now how they got there or who used them.